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Authorities in macomb county, michigan, descend on a remote wooded area near a river. a convicted killer has confessed to burying a young girl here 22 years ago. >> everyone was on scene as the excavation unfolded over the course of many hours. >> looks like the purse. >> it does look like the coat. -- the coat's over the head. >> yeah. >> the digging stops when skeletal remains are found. >> then it became a medical examiner case really because human remains found in the county believed to be related to some type of foul play certainly became the jurisdiction of the medical examiner. >> medic...

Scene and see the circumstances around it because it can change. >> she follows a routine. >> i usually start at the head, looking for any deformities to the head, any depressed skull fractures, bullet holes, anything that shouldn't be there. then i go to the eyes, the neck, then work my way down the chest to make sure there are no stab wounds, no gunshot wounds, any trauma to the body, making that assessment and then work my way down. >> she doesn't see any sign of foul play. >> he was lying peacefully on the bed, almost like he was sleeping on his side. nothing unusual with the scene. i have...

>> the organs are weighed and inspected, all look healthy. >> nice coronary arteries. >> yeah, nice. >> but then dr. spitz finds something that gets everyone's attention. >> that is an iud. >> it is an iud. >> she does have an iud. the question is, when did she have it put in? >> police officers crowd in. could the woman's intrauterine device have something to do with all the blood? >> there's been some information put forth by the boyfriend that he thought this was menstrual blood because he saw the blood before he left for work in the morning. the fact that an iud is present may actually pro...

I relayed that to the police now who are in the process of determining whose blood does that belong to. >> dr. spitz and detectives believe the woman's psychiatric history may hold the keys to understanding her death and the bloody scene. >> it is going to be a medical or toxicology issue that we sort out after we get more results in. >> okay. >> take some fingerprints and then we're done. we've gained a lot of information over the last 24 hours about what's going on. this woman, unfortunately, has some psychiatric illness. she's got some medical problems related to that. she's had multiple ho...

Remains are brought back to the morgue and examined by dr. daniel spitz, the medical examiner for macomb county, michigan. >> we're trying to fill in the gaps as to what actually happened. we never got a confession on this case, the prosecutor still doesn't know what the cause of death is. we're hoping today to help determine how this girl died. >> ream claims he buried cindy after she accidentally fell down a warehouse elevator shaft in 1986. in addition to trying to determine the cause and manner of death, dr. spitz will use whatever methods he can to positively identify the remains. >> whil...